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That was funny. I told a similar joke at an informal church gathering after two prior life changes resulted in me changing church (denomination) twice. So doing a standup routine I said that I had researched denominational differences according to the great theologian Jeff Foxworthy to tell when I’d had really become a Baptist, than later really became a Pentecostal (Assembly of God) then later became a Methodist (before it was overtly hedonist).

If you’re in the grocery store and when you see someone from church your reflexive move is to rearrange your shopping cart to hide your alcohol… you might be a Baptist. If you’ve never clapped in church, you might be a Baptist. If you’ve often clapped and danced in church before the music started … you might be Pentecostal. If you can count on one hand the number of times you clapped at any church function and you clapped on the down beat, not the up beat, you might be a Methodist. If you just now asked your wife “What’s the down beat?” and your wife elbowed you saying “Quit embarrassing me (insert name of elder pastor who like to cut up a lot)”… you might be a Methodist.